The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is set to review the legality of IPP sentences

I am lucky in the sense that I’ve been out on my IPP sentence. While I was in the community in 2023/24, I passed a humanities access course. During that time, I also completed a university ap…

Approximately 58,000 people are currently incarcerated in German prisons. Over half of them reoffend after their release. These statistics raise doubts about the prison system.

Exclusive: Devastated relatives say Thomas White, who has served 14 years stealing a mobile phone, has been told he is going back to prison without a release date

Pregnant women prisoners in England are being handcuffed to prison officers – often male – during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births. Will this dehumanising treatment be stopped?

A prison van crew were focused on “anything except” helping a dying inmate as he lay slumped in the back of a vehicle outside a London court, an inquest has found

Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they engage with staff and other prisoners.

A UN expert on Monday commended the new proposals addressing the 'longstanding crisis of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences in England and Wales,' urging judicial reconsideration of th...

A new report on the experience of children in custody says they're being increasingly failed by a system dominated by violence, disorder and a lack of access to education. The annual survey by the pri...

Exclusive: A complaint being lodged with the UN claims IPP prisoners are being arbitrarily detained, as a bombshell letter proves David Lammy agrees the jail terms are a ‘grave injustice’